I just had to add in my personal pet peeve. Most of the time in a story, I want a resolution where good wins. And I think a strength of fantasy is that it tends to make good and evil clearer than most genres. When it’s clear in the story, then later the story’s principles and themes get applied in my life in more…[Read more]

2) I did find myself skimming the description of the Tannink’esh from “A long reptilian body filled the clearing…connecting seamlessly to the nape of the creatures neck.” So those paragraphs could probably be condensed. I think I got a fairly good idea o…[Read more]

Here’s the blurb for my story because I’m not good at summarizing it (probably because my plot needs some major work), so here’s the formal thing I’ve worked up:

In the world of…[Read more]

I suppose there is a difference between making him annoying to other characters and making him annoying to readers. But I kind of want to make him annoying to my…[Read more]

I just finished reading this series by Brent Weeks and admittedly I read it because I wanted to understand all the references to it in fantasy and Christian writing articles. It generally seemed to be promoted for its magic system (based on light and color) and being Christian fantasy.

I was disappointed.

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I’m a huge fan of Goodreads for a couple reasons:

1) Analysis 1: I’ll often write quick reviews of books I read with just bullet points of things that stood out to me –often those thoughts come from a writer’s…[Read more]

My concern is not that readers will be disappointed the human MC didn’t solve the problem. My concern instead is that readers will be left wondering why the deity didn’t solve the problem. Have you ever heard people ask why…[Read more]